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JAN 2009
S C R A W L S The Junior League of San Antonio, Inc. JLSA/Goodwill Partnership
Ready to Rummage around? Last spring JLSA immediate Past President, Delaina Harrison, along with a small group of League leaders met with Goodwill to discuss ways to continue the Rummage tradition of giving back to the community. Since that time JLSA, Inc. President, Laura Talley, JLSA President-Elect, Anna-Melissa Cavazos, JLSA Managing Director Carolyn Kelley and Goodwill Partnership Chair, Betsy Dose have met monthly with a great team at Goodwill to create the partnership.. As discussions began, the goal was to utilize the strengths of both organizations. Using the quality goods from JLSA members together with the collection and distribution process Goodwill has in place, to create a “win-win” for both of the organizations and the community that we serve. Now that 2009 has arrived, the Goodwill partnership team is ready to share the next phase of the Rummage Sale. On February 28th, JLSA and Goodwill will kick off the next phase of the Rummage Sale. The sale will be held at 4 Goodwill Stores throughout the city. The quality items you have donated have been sorted and high quality items are being corralled and held at the distribution center. These items will be featured in these 4 stores on February 29th. As part of the partnership, Goodwill will provide JLSA with $20,000 in shopping vouchers that JLSA will give to clients of selected JLSA Community partners. These clients will use the vouchers to shop that day. In addition to the great
shopping opportunity our Rummage shoppers are accustomed to, the Goodwill partnership will provide us the opportunity to serve the population with additional services including financial education, preventive health screenings and job placement services if they are in need. The entire community will be invited and traditional Rummage shoppers will be invited for this great day. The Board of Directors and Executive Committee have been working with Rebecca Helterbrand, Vice President, Marketing and Performance at Goodwill, and Tony Diamond, Principal at Blueground Marketing, to develop the creatives and promotional campaign for the next phase of Rummage. Our exciting work together has produced a campaign to bridge from the traditional Rummage Sale to the new Rummage Sale. Following the Sale Day, JLSAdonations will be featured in a special boutique section of Goodwill stores. The boutique section will contain high quality items with name brands and famous designers, continuing the tradition of the “French Room.” All items will be tagged with the new boutique brand. At the December General Membership meeting the new brand was unveiled.
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